Makefiles generated by cmake can't find the nvcuvid libraries by default

[aakshintala]

Turns out the video-codec-sdk libraries are distributed with the driver and not CUDA.
Sigh... Nvidia...
The link commands generated by CMake weren't automatically including the correct library search path.
I got around this by adding -L/usr/lib/nvidia-396 (on a Ubuntu system) to each generated link.txt (in CMakeFiles/NvPipe.dir etc).

I don't really understand CMake or I'd send a PR, but is there some way for you to include the nvidia driver path automatically in the generated compiler commands?

[tbiedert]

Hi, thanks for reaching out!

You can add the library search path via the LDFLAGS environment variable when running CMake for the first time: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/envvar/LDFLAGS.html

Best,
Tim